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High-Efficiency Millimeter-Wave Front-Ends for Large Phased-Array Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)The ever-increasing demand for wireless broadband connectivity requires infrastructure capable of supporting data transfer rates at multi-Gbps. To accommodate such heavy traffic, the channel capacity for the given spectrum ... -
High-fidelity Modelling of an Electric Sport Utility Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)The development and validation of a high-fidelity dynamic model of an electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) is presented. The developed model of the electric vehicle system consists of two main subsystems: the high-fidelity ... -
A High-Fidelity VR Simulation Study: Do External Warnings Really Improve Pedestrian Safe Crossing Behavior?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-27)To better communicate with pedestrians, adding external displays to autonomous vehicles (AVs) has been proposed as a potential communication method to encourage safe crossing behavior by pedestrians. Whereas, most researchers ... -
High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging Innovations for Complex Flow Quantification
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Vascular pathology such as atherosclerosis or arterial stiffening involves significant disruption in the blood flow dynamics found in the vasculature, with complex behavior such as jets and swirling typically seen in ... -
High-level Information Fusion for Constrained SMC Methods and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)Information Fusion is a field that studies processes utilizing data from various input sources, and techniques exploiting this data to produce estimates and knowledge about objects and situations. On the other hand, human ... -
High-Level Intuitive Features (HLIFs) for Melanoma Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Feature extraction of segmented skin lesions is a pivotal step for implementing accurate decision support systems. Existing feature sets combine many ad-hoc calculations and are unable to easily provide intuitive diagnostic ... -
High-Level Microbial Production of Propionate in Engineered Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-07)Biological platforms for propionate production have been limited to anaerobic native microbial producers, such as Propionibacterium and Clostridium. In this work, we demonstrated high-level heterologous production of ... -
High-Order Finite-Volume Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-01)New high-order finite-volume numerical schemes for the magnetohydrodynamics equations are proposed in two and three dimensions. Two different sets of magnetohydrodynamics equations are considered. The first set is the ideal ... -
High-Order Numerical Methods in Lake Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-18)The physical processes in lakes remain only partially understood despite successful data collection from a variety of sources spanning several decades. Although numerical models are already frequently employed to simulate ... -
High-Performance Concurrent Memory Allocation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-25)Memory management takes a sequence of program-generated allocation/deallocation requests and attempts to satisfy them within a fixed-sized block of memory while minimizing the total amount of memory used. A general-purpose ... -
High-Performance Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Hybrid Perovskite Nanomaterials for Energy-Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-21)With the increasing drive to create self-powering nano/micro-electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS), maximizing the output performance of piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) is essential. Organic-inorganic halide perovskites ... -
High-Performance Polymer Semiconductors for Organic Thin-Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)A novel polymer semiconductor with side chains thermally cleavable at a low temperature of 200 °C was synthesized. The complete cleavage and removal of the insulating 2-octyldodecanoyl side chains were verified with TGA, ... -
High-Performance Reconfigurable Piezoelectric Resonators and Filters for RF Frontend Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)A conventional RF frontend module consists of many filters where each filter is allocated for a specific frequency band. These filters are connected through multiplexing switch networks to support multi-band wireless ... -
A High-Performance Three-Phase Grid-Connected PV System Based On Multilevel Current Source Inverter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Current Source Inverter (CSI) topology is gaining acceptance as a competitive alternative for grid interface of renewable energy systems due to its unique and advantageous features. Merits of CSI over the more popular ... -
High-Performance, Energy-Efficient CMOS Arithmetic Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-16)In a modern microprocessor, datapath/arithmetic circuits have always been an important building block in delivering high-performance, energy-efficient computing, because arithmetic operations such as addition and binary ... -
High-precision Sediment Tracking for Characterization of Sediment Transport of a Rural Stream in Southern Ontario Conditioned by Glacial Legacy Deposits
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-30)Semi-alluvial rivers are common in Southern Ontario and are characterized by sections of exposed highly consolidated glacial till and other sections of mobile sediment. Such rivers are typically characterized by a series ... -
High-Q Millimeter Wave RF Filters and Multiplexers
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-04)For a long period of time, millimeter waves (mm-Wave) were considered unsuitable for wireless data transmission due to high attention while propagating in the atmosphere. Over the past few years, due to the vigorous ... -
High-Q Multi-band Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-05)Recent development of multifunctional communication systems capable of processing large amount of data has triggered the demand for novel payload configurations with advanced filtering functions. To increase the payload ... -
High-Resolution Analysis of Snow Albedo Interactions in the Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)The Snow Albedo Feedback (SAF) is an important contributor to Arctic warming, however models disagree significantly on the strength of this effect. Previous work has investigated the influence of vegetation on surface ... -
A High-Resolution CMOS Single-Photon-Counting Spectrographic X-Ray Imager
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)Digital X-ray imagers for clinical mammography and computed tomography (CT) have been recently taking advantage of the noise-rejection properties of single-photon-counting (SPC) architectures. However, conventional SPC ...